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| Raphael Study for The Wedding of Alexander and Roxana (fresco in the Villa Farnesina, Rome) ca. 1510 drawing Albertina, Vienna |
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| Michelangelo Figure Study ca. 1530-40 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giulio Romano Study for Daedalus and Icarus (fresco in Palazzo del Te, Mantua) ca. 1530-35 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Luca Cambiaso Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1545 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Figure from Michelangelo's Last Judgment ca. 1550 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Figure from Michelangelo's Last Judgment ca. 1580 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
Of the Last Verses in the Book
When we for age could neither read nor write,
The subject made us able to indite.
The soul, with nobler resolutions deckt,
The body stooping, does herself erect:
No mortal parts are requisite to raise
Her, that unbodied can her Maker praise.
The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er,
So calm are we, when passions are no more:
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness, which age descries.
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home:
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
– Edmund Waller (1686)
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| Prospero Fontana Hercules with the Nemean Lion ca. 1555 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Hercules with the Robe of Nessus before 1560 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Annibale Carracci Figure Study of a Girl ca. 1580-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Andrea Boscoli Académie (after a wax mannequin) ca. 1587 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pietro Faccini Half-Length Recumbent Male Nude ca. 1590 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Ferraù Fenzoni Reclining Figure ca. 1591 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1591-93 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino Man tugging on a Sheet (Study for The Entombment) ca. 1595-96 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |